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...villains, and Chief Counsel is no exception. The hero, of course, is Dash himself, although Committee Chairman Sam J. Ervin of North Carolina takes nearly equal billing. The villain is principally Senator Howard Baker, the Republican from Tennessee, who served as vice chairman. Another villain, interestingly, is Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, with whom Dash tangled during his short-lived role as the Watergate special prosecutor. It soon becomes clear that anyone who impeded the investigation that Dash envisioned comes under fire in Chief Counsel, and this predictability of Dash the author is what principally weakens the book...
...Cox, although he fought the despicable Republican architects of what Dash sees as a blueprint for a police state, becomes as much an enemy as Baker. Dash welcomes Cox and James Vorenberg, professor of Law, to Washington, but soon recoils in horror as Cox suggests that the time for the Senate's investigation has ended. Cox argued at the time that he was fully competent to investigate and prosecute the Watergate transgressions himself and didn't want the Senate committee interfering or prejudicing possible trials with excessive publicity. Dash, naturally, defended his position with vigor, and reports the following exchange...
...mentions that accomplishments in ethics "will probably depend more on what goes on outside the classroom than on the curriculum itself." He writes that Harvard students can profit more from the example of Archibald Cox than they could from a course in ethics. Similarly, we must wonder how much value ethics lectures from University administrators can have when those administrators do not bother to consider the ethics involved in their own decisions. Two issues at Harvard immediately come to mind. Administrators have not conducted any serious debate about whether the University should engage in recombinant DNA research, although that...
...cox gives the instructions to her boat, and is responsible for its direction and speed. "Contrary to what most people think, the cox does not just sit in the boat and yell, 'stroke,'" says cox Diana Shaw. "I have to know a great deal about rowing so that I can coach the girls and correct any problems that may develop...
...Mary W. Cox North Miami...